1 Thessalonians 2:15
the persons who slew our Lord Jesus the Messiah, and persecuted their own prophets and us; and they please not God, and are made hostile to all men;
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
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Matthew 5:12At that time, rejoice and be glad: for your reward in heaven is great. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.
Matthew 23:31Wherefore ye are witnesses, against yourselves, that ye are the children of them that killed the prophets.
Matthew 27:25And all the people answered, and said His blood be on us, and on our children!
Luke 13:33But I must labor to-day and to-morrow, and on the following day I will go; because it cannot be, that a prophet should perish away from Jerusalem.
Acts 2:23him, being hereto appointed by the prescience and the good pleasure of God, ye have delivered into the hands of the wicked; and have crucified and slain.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 2:14-17
Effects of the Christian Ministry. ( a. d. 51.) 13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe. 14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judæa are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews: 15 Who both killed the Lord… Read the whole commentary →